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Couldn't agree more. The fact that so few developers are willing to pay for good tools is why we end up with tools like Eclipse.


The point is that we all did pay for good tools. We paid for TM1, and TM1 included the promise of a free update to TM2. I already own TM2, see?


Do you really claim that existing commercial IDEs are so much better than Eclipse?


I use eclipse every day and would never defend it against almost any disparagement.


I don't particularly love Eclipse, but I just don't agree that the commercial alternatives are so much better. Which IDE would you recommend yourself?


For java development? I don't have a recommendation really. I've tried Intelli-j and I think it is def. better but at least for my workflow at the paying job, eclipse's notion of project works out much better.




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